Are you aware that you are barking up the wrong tree? AOMedia already made AV1 a free and open standard, if Adobe does not want to do an engineer's afternoon worth of work to link a C library into their executable, then that's on their head, not AOMedia's.
Less of a plea with AOMedia (it's not like they can't work on AV2 when AV1 is out there but doesn't have full adoption), and more at the industry as a whole - otherwise we'll still see H264 be widespread by 2030 and onwards because there's not enough interest in modern codecs even when they don't have licensing bullshit going on.
